1718 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[edit]
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby[1][3][4]
- Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly[5]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[7]
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley[8]
Events[edit]
- February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.[9]
- 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates.[10] Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
- 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.[11]
- date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.[12]
Arts and literature[edit]
New books[edit]
- Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau[13]
- Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)[14]
- Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco[15]
Births[edit]
- July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)[16]
- date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)[17]
Deaths[edit]
- 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
- 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,[18]
- 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72[19]
- 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40[20]
- date unknown
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
- ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
- ^ Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
- ^ West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
- ^ "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
- ^ Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
- ^ Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1321-5
- ^ Breverton, Terry (2003). The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers. Sain Tathan: Glyndwr Publishing. ISBN 1-903529-09-3.
- ^ Enid Pierce Roberts. "EVANS, THEOPHILUS". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ Sir William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER , ISAAC". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ Meic Stephens (1998). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru. University of Wales Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
- ^ National Library of Wales; M. Gwyneth Lewis (1977). The printed maps of Radnorshire, 1578-1900. The Library. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-901833-81-5.
- ^ Trysorfa y plant: cyhoeddiad misol i ieuenctyd (in Welsh). P.M. Evans. 1913. p. 35.
- ^ William Griffith. "JONES, WILLIAM". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol Two. Richard Baldwin Cook. 2009. pp. 1–3. ISBN 978-0-9791257-6-8.
- ^ George William Logan (1874). A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina. pp. 16.
- ^ George Atherton Aitken (1968). The Life of Richard Steele. Ardent Media. p. 192.
- ^ A. H. Dodd. "BROUGHTON family of Marchwiel, Denbs.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ Thomas Richards. "EVANS, WILLIAM". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
- ^ A. H. Dodd. "MYDDELTON". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.